I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSHYou know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
BARBARA BUSH






